This is in the Courier Mail today Sat 21 Sept 2024.
As part of the Truth Telling Enquiry this woman recounts her mother telling her how she & family escaped a "brutal massacre" in the Palmer River Gold Fields.
This woman would be not much older than I am so her mother would not have been born any earlier than my parents i.e. 1924 for my father who died aged 96 in 2020 & my mother aged 92 died in 2022.
The Palmer River massacre occurred in the 1870's the largest at Battle Camp was in 1873.
This woman says her grandmother was shot & killed and her mother shot in the hip.
I do not believe her mother was born in the late 1800's - her grandmother maybe but I doubt it.
And how are there photos of Grandma taken around the same time as her mothers in the article if she was shot & killed?
The story/so called truth telling doesn't make sense.
Quote:ELDER REVEALS FAMILY’S ESCAPE
FROM BRUTAL MASSACRE
IWAN JONES
A prominent Indigenous elder has opened up on her family’s incredible story of survival after her mother escaped a brutal massacre after being
shot, while she was removed from her family in her teens as part of the
Stolen Generation in an emotional day at the Truth-Telling Inquiry.
A proud descendant of the Ghunghanghi People of Yarrabah, North Queensland, Aunty Flo Watson OAM told the Truth-Telling Inquiry at the
Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre on Friday of her family’s incredible story of survival to the present day.
She began by sharing the lived experience of members of her family, who
were shot at and killed during a massacre at Palmer River.
Her grandmother Mary Palmer was shot and killed by the troopers, while
her mother Doris ‘Sira’ Choikee, who was a child at that point, was shot in
the hip while running away.
“
One of the pretty bad massacres on the Palmer River that she was a part of,” Aunty Flo said.
“Her mother was shot and killed trying to save her and she was shot in the hip trying to save our little brother, and her sister, my aunty, Rose Maycan Grogan was headbutted trying to run away.
“So she believes that she was about four when she left.
“I remember she showed us the bullet wound where it went and it went from her hip to her toes, they never took it out, and yeah, she limped her whole life.
“It was a pretty nasty massacre – pretty bad in the Palmer River.”
Following the massacre, the survivors were forced to walk from Maytown
to Cooktown, a journey of 279km by road in the present day, while shackled in chains.
“From Cooktown they walked from – they had to walk in chains from Maytown to Cooktown,” Aunty Flo said.
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